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Survivor Stories: Cyrena Arokium
This episode features Cyrena Arokium, a survivor from the Sandy Hook School shooting in 2012. She talks about her experience, what it’s like being a college student an...
Stories of Loss: Khadijah Butler
This episode features Khadijah Butler, founder & president of the Craig D. Butler Scholarship Foundation. She speaks about the loss of her father to community gun viol...
Survivor Stories: Melissa Gibbons
This extended episode features Melissa Gibbons, a teacher at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan. She speaks about her experience from Nov. 30, 2021, how she’s usin...
Voices for Change: Robert Wilcox
This episode features Robert Wilcox, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which was created by the Biden Administration in Sept. 2023....
Stories of Loss: Kaitlin Haynes
This episode features Kaitlin Haynes. She speaks about losing her best friend and uncle to gun violence, going into schools every day for work, being a mom with the st...
Survivor Stories: Natalie Niemeyer
On this episode, we’ll hear from Natalie Niemeyer, a survivor from the Des Moines East High School shooting in March 2022. She speaks about how having educator parents...
Covering a Tragedy: Reed Alexander
In this extended episode, we’ll hear from Reed Alexander. He played Nevel Papperman on iCarly and has gone on to become a world-class professional journalist with Busi...
Voices for Change: Logan Rubenstein
In this episode, we’ll hear from Logan Rubenstein, the former director of March For Our Lives Parkland. He speaks about his experience adjacent to the events at Marjor...
Living With PTSD: Rachel Archambault
In this episode, we’ll hear from Rachel Archambault, a speech-language pathologist, public speaker & gun violence survivor. She speaks about her experience at MSD, how...
Voices for Change: Santiago Mayer
On this episode, we’ll hear from Santiago Mayer, Executive Director of Voters of Tomorrow. He shares the organization’s origin, what young people can do to speak out a...
Parkland Speaks
In this episode, we’ll talk about “Parkland Speaks,” the book that was released in January 2019, published by Random House. It’s an anthology of writing, art and photo...
Mental Health: Jack Hilton
On this episode, we’ll hear from Jack Hilton, a social worker in Maine who specializes in trauma-informed counseling. He shares how his personal trauma and work as a l...
Mind & Body: Amy Kenny
In this episode, we’ll hear from Amy Kenny, an educator & yoga instructor. She speaks about her experience with gun violence, why yoga, meditation & the mind-body conn...
Survivor Stories: Antonius Wiriadjaja
In this episode, we’ll hear from Antonius Wiriadjaja, an educator, artist & gun violence survivor. He speaks about the moment that changed his life, being in the gun v...
Covering a Tragedy: Follow-Up with Ed Drantch
In this episode, we have a follow-up interview with WKBW anchor, Ed Drantch. He shares what life is like in Buffalo a year and a half after Tops, how his reporting has...
Survivor Stories: Winfred Porter
In this episode, we’ll hear from Winfred Porter, an educator & survivor from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018. He speaks about his early life,...
Survivor Stories: Mei-Ling Ho-Shing
On this episode, we’ll hear from Mei-Ling Ho-Shing, a survivor from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018. She speaks about being a lifelong activi...
A Little Update
In this episode, Sarah Lerner shares some updates about the show, what Teachers Unify To End Gun Violence has been up to & ways you can get involved.
Covering a Tragedy: Ed Drantch
Edward Drantch, a reporter from WKBW, the ABC affiliate in Buffalo, shares his experiences covering the tragic events surrounding the shooting at Tops in Buffalo on Ma...
Voices from the ER: Dr. Joseph Sakran
Dr. Joseph Sakran, a gun violence survivor and trauma surgeon, shares his experiences and journey through activism.
Current Events with Sarah and Dave
Teachers Unify Podcast hosts Sarah Lerner and Dave Price talk about the current status of Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence, guns, violence, the 2nd Amendment, educat...
Covering a Tragedy: Caitie Munoz
On this episode, Caitie Munoz, a reporter from WLRN, the Miami NPR affiliate, shares her experience as a reporter on Feb. 14, 2018, trauma-informed reporting & other r...
Survivor Stories: Jeff Foster (Part 3)
On this episode, Jeff Foster, a teacher in at MSD, shares his story from Feb. 14, 2018 & talks about his influence on the students who started March For Our Lives, his...
Survivor Stories: Jeff Foster (Part 2)
On this episode, Jeff Foster, a teacher in at MSD, shares his story from Feb. 14, 2018 & talks about his influence on the students who started March For Our Lives, his...
Survivor Stories: Jeff Foster (Part 1)
On this episode, Jeff Foster, a teacher in at MSD, shares his story from Feb. 14, 2018 & talks about his influence on the students who started March For Our Lives, his...
Survivor Stories: Amie Stevens
On this episode, Amie Stevens, a teacher at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan, describes here experience from Nov. 30, 2021. She shares her "new normal" as a gun...
Voices from Teachers Unify: Sari Beth Rosenberg
On this episode, Sari Beth Rosenberg, a teacher in New York City, shares here experience as an educator and activist & what led her to become a co-founder of Teachers ...
Voices from Teachers Unify: Abbey Clements
Elementary teacher Abbey Clements describes the horror-filled day at Sandy Hook School in Newtown CT, on Dec. 14, 2012. She shares how that tragic event turned her int...
Voices from Teachers Unify: Sarah Lerner
On this, our premiere episode, you will hear Sarah's moving story about being a school shooting survivor.